Who could ever forget the classic Ric Flair vs. Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat trilogy in 1989?
Dave Meltzer (who attended the Chi-Town Rumble event, where the first part of the trilogy took place) gave all three matches five stars, and the Chi-Town Rumble match is considered to be one of the best wrestling matches ever. • Ricky Steamboat, a few years later, had another CMOA at Clash of the Champions XVII. Dustin Rhodes was to challenge the then-tag champs The Enforcers (Arn Anderson and Larry Zybysko) alongside his usual tag partner, Barry Windham. The problem was that Windham was dealing with a hand injury, so he wasn’t going to be competing, but this was covered up in storyline by having the heels injure him intentionally so that the thread of the Rhodes / Windham tag team would be removed. Dustin shows up anyway with a “mystery man” clad in a cloak and a dragon mask… only for the mystery man to take off his costume and reveal himself to be none other than Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat, making his return after departing from the WWF just weeks earlier. The reaction of the hee
